Fang Youqun climbed onto the deck, holding the net bag and proudly saying, "I caught two."
Xiang Yang looked at him speechlessly, "You just caught two shrimps and came up?"
Starfish shrimps are very loyal to love. A male and a female always appear in pairs. Fang Youqun only caught two starfish shrimps, which means he only found a pair of starfish shrimps and immediately went ashore.
"In addition to starfish shrimp, I actually caught some other things." Fang Youqun said rather embarrassedly. He really wasn't lazy, it was mainly because he thought starfish shrimp looked very strange, and after catching two, he couldn't help but come up to show off to everyone, so he only caught two and floated to the surface, but he didn't expect to be caught by Xiang Yang.
Xiang Yang took a look at Fang Youqun's net bag and was even more speechless. This guy actually picked up more than a dozen scallops from the bottom of the sea.
A dozen scallops may seem like a lot, but in fact, there is not even a lump of meat as big as an egg.
As for selling them, scallops are really worthless at the seaside, only a few dollars per pound, and no one buys them at all.
There is no meat to eat, and it is not worth selling. Xiang Yang doesn’t understand what Fang Youqun is doing with these things.
"This is what I caught before. I didn't find any valuable seafood like crabs and lobsters, so I only found these scallops." Fang Youqun said embarrassedly: "One or two scallops are not valuable, but as long as you catch 20 to 30 kilograms, it's still enough to make 100 yuan, hehe."
Xiang Yang rolled his eyes and let Fang Youqun figure out the meaning for himself.
Fang Youqun said jokingly, "Brother Yang, are these starfish shrimps valuable? Are the two I caught enough to be worth a hundred dollars?"
"Enough." Xiang Yang affirmed.
"Really?" A hint of surprise flashed across Fang Youqun's face.
"The market price of starfish shrimps ranges from three to five hundred yuan a pair to four to five thousand yuan a pair. We are the place of origin, and except for some really good quality ones, we wholesale them without distinguishing between quality. They are all counted as three hundred yuan a pair. You should try to catch as many as possible. You may be able to get into the top three in the total catch value of this diving fishing competition." Xiang Yang encouraged.
Fang Youqun's eyes lit up and he quickly handed the net bag to the crew on the deck, then picked up an empty net bag and walked to the edge of the deck.
Xiang Yang smiled. He watched Fang Youqun go into the water, and then waited patiently on the deck for the other crew members to come up.
Starfish shrimps are very social creatures. They generally like to live in groups. There is a lot of sea sand in this sea area, which is very suitable for the growth of starfish.
Starfish shrimps reproduce very quickly if there are enough starfish as food. Xiang Yang has to wait on the deck for the crew to come up and pass on the task of catching starfish shrimps.
Although starfish shrimps are hard to find, once you find them, you can definitely catch them. Catching a starfish shrimp is much more valuable than catching a lobster or swimming crab of the same size.
Xiang Yang took the net bag that Fang Youqun brought up from the crew and took out the two starfish shrimps from the net bag.
The starfish shrimp is really fierce. It is restless even when held in the hand of Xiang Yang, who is many times bigger than it. Its five pairs of legs do not struggle like ordinary lobsters, but just hang down freely. However, its two big claws dance vigorously, as if it wants to give Xiang Yang a hard blow.
"Captain, be careful, don't get bitten by these shrimps." The crew member reminded Xiang Yang.
Xiang Yang smiled, let go of his hand and threw the starfish shrimp into the tank.
After all the crew members surfaced once, Xiang Yang told everyone about the starfish shrimp, and then he went into the water again.
After entering the water, Xiang Yang swam leisurely at the bottom of the water and did not bother the starfish shrimp again.
He had a very clear position for himself. He was only responsible for finding valuable seafood and capturing samples. As for large-scale captures, that was the crew's job.
Xiang Yang swam a circle under the water. Suddenly, he turned his head and looked in one direction. There was a super big fish in that direction, which was at least three or four meters long.
"Great white shark?" Xiang Yang felt his heart beat violently. If he encountered a great white shark on the seabed, it would definitely be very, very bad news.
Xiang Yang quickly looked in that direction. Through the mysterious jade shell, his vision was almost comparable to that of a 16x telescope, and he finally saw the full picture of the fish.
The fish was over four meters long and had a concave jaw. When it opened its mouth to hunt, its mouth was about half a meter wide. Its head had relatively long and very obvious gill slits that almost surrounded the entire head of the fish, looking very scary.
Its eyes were very thin, like green beans, and its teeth were hooked, each only about 4-6 mm long, not even longer than Xiang Yang's own incisors. Moreover, its teeth were very sparse, with only three teeth on the upper jaw and only six or seven teeth on the lower jaw, just like an old fish with no teeth.
Xiang Yang breathed a sigh of relief. He had recognized the true identity of the fish, a basking shark!
The basking shark is huge in size and is often mistaken for the great white shark. In fact, the basking shark and the great white shark are very easy to distinguish. The great white shark has large teeth that are as sharp and hard as daggers, but the basking shark does not.
The basking shark is one of the largest known sharks, second only to the whale shark in size. The largest basking shark specimen came from a basking shark that was entangled in a herring net in the Bay of Fundy, Canada in 1851. Its total length reached 12.27 meters and its weight reached 19 tons, almost the size of a whale.
The basking shark that Xiang Yang saw was very majestic. It opened its big mouth near the water surface and swallowed all the fish and shrimps along the way very ostentatiously. It gently swung its tail, but was not in a hurry to move forward, as if it was playing with its prey.
In fact, Xiang Yang knew that these were all illusions.
Basking sharks do this not to show off, but it is the only way they can hunt.
Moreover, the basking shark swims very slowly, and because it only has a few small and sparse teeth, it is not aggressive at all.
It is worth mentioning that the fossil record of basking sharks can be traced back to the middle Eocene, and in ancient times they were distributed all over the world.
The basking shark was once thought to be a sea monster.
Many of the corpses of large and mysterious marine creatures discovered in the past were initially thought to belong to sea snakes or plesiosaurs. Later, after investigation and research, scientists discovered that those corpses were actually decomposed pieces of basking sharks.
At the end of the 20th century, a giant shark appeared on the coastline of a small Belgian town, scaring the tourists nearby.
In fact, basking sharks will not attack humans. Although they are large in size, they have no teeth, so they are very docile. Although they have a big mouth, they never actively hunt for food like great white sharks.